Dollhouse (TV Series)

Man on the Street (2009)

Tahmoh Penikett: Paul Ballard

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• Paul Ballard : Weren't you, um, seeing someone?

  Mellie : Mmm-hmm.

  Paul Ballard : Rick.

  Mellie : Dick.

  Paul Ballard : Really, I thought it was Rick.

  Mellie : Oh, his name is Rick.

  Paul Ballard : Ooh.

  Mellie : Mmm-hmm. He said he didn't see me as a long-term investment. Said he wanted to, ah, dump the stock before it went public. He talks like that. He works at a donut shop.

  Paul Ballard : What a Rick.

• Paul Ballard : Where is it?

  Echo : You can't know that. You're going about this the wrong way.

  Paul Ballard : I have to take down the Dollhouse!

  Echo : There are over 20 Dollhouses... in cities around the world. They have ties to every major political power on the planet. You cannot possibly stop them alone.

  Paul Ballard : You're gonna help me?

  Echo : The person that sent this message is.

  Paul Ballard : Why?

  Echo : The Dollhouse deals in fantasy. That is their business. But that is not their purpose.

  Paul Ballard : What is?

  Echo : We need you to find out. We'll contact you again, if possible with this same body. But you have to let the Dollhouse win. Make them back off. You have to trust me.

• Joel Mynor : [Having previously explained how he'd always been one step behind the trend]  I mean, I finally got one step ahead.

  Paul Ballard : Bouncy the Rat. Kids love it.

  Joel Mynor : Oh, they do. I mean long story still kind of long, my first check had more zeroes than the Luftwaffe.

  Paul Ballard : The Japanese. They had the Zeroes, not the Germans.

  Joel Mynor : [sighs]  It was money!

• Joel Mynor : Why don't you tell me what you're looking for?

  Paul Ballard : I found what I was looking for.

  Joel Mynor : Really? Figured you'd be a lot happier right about now.

  Paul Ballard : Tell me about the Dollhouse.

  Joel Mynor : [chuckles]  The Doll... Uh, it's pink and it opens up, and there's, uh, teeny furniture, and you put the boy doll on top of the girl doll and we learn about urges.

• Mellie : [after making love]  I'm not gonna freak out on you.

  Paul Ballard : Uhhhh... good?

  Mellie : When you tell me this is all a mistake and we should forget it ever happened, I'm gonna be very cool. You're going to be bothered by how cool I am.

  Paul Ballard : What if I don't say that?

  Mellie : I'll still be cool, but not *as* cool.

  Paul Ballard : What if you tell *me* it was a mistake?

  Mellie : God! You're going to be so clingy. Weeping and moping, texting me. It's too embarrassing.

  Paul Ballard : I'm not a piece of meat, you know! I have a heart.

• Mellie : [after making love]  I was thinking about Caroline.

  Paul Ballard : Well *I* wasn't!

• Loomis : You mean everything admissable by a warrant that you got, because anybody in the whole wide bureau believes you're not insane.

  Paul Ballard : I mean help me out.

  Loomis : Getting shot didn't even make you pause, did it?

  [chuckles] 

  Loomis : I'll help you. The director sees what we're up to, he's gonna help you *out*.

• Rebecca Mynor : Please put the gun away. My name is Rebecca Mynor and this is my husband, Joel. We just bought this house. We did, right? You didn't just break in to impress me?

  Joel Mynor : No, it-it-it's paid for. This is all a big mix up. Please tell me your name.

  Paul Ballard : I'm Paul Ballard. I'm with the FBI.

  Rebecca Mynor : I knew it.

  Joel Mynor : What?

  Rebecca Mynor : It's... porn, isn't it? The internet venture that suddenly pays off. You did porn. My husband does porn!

  Joel Mynor : No, I don't do porn.

• Paul Ballard : [Entering]  I'd like you both to turn around very slowly. What's the matter, Mr. Mynor? Did you two want to be...

  [Sees Echo] 

  Paul Ballard : alone?

• Mellie : [in bed together]  My God! You're so... neighborly!

  [both chuckle] 

  Paul Ballard : So... can I borrow a cup of sugar?

  Mellie : [chuckles]  I don't think I got any sugar left.